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The Recycle Games

For Teachers K - 12th
Students play a series of Recycle Games which provide great exercise while teaching about the importance of recycling. They participate in relay races and games that make use of recycled materials and other "trash."
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Sports Math

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders participate in a variety of sports related problem solving equations that involve fractions, decimals and percents. They explain the relationships and equivalences among integers, fractions, decimals and percents with a...
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Make Your Own Trashasaurus Rex Sculpture

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students explore environmental awareness through reusing materials. In this environmental awareness lesson plan, students use trash to create a "trashasaurus," a large dinosaur sculpture made from waste. Detailed structure and...
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Create, Design, and Invent with Plastic

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students explore creative ways to reuse materials. In this ecology/art lesson, students create artwork using trash. Students view examples of folk art from around the world that used waste products as a main component.
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Aluminum Can Drive

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders complete a recycling project to clean-up their school. In this service project lesson, 2nd graders assess their campus for litter, set up a recycling project, clean up their campus, and recycle the trash. Students also...
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Earth Day Art

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students discuss Earth day. In this art lesson, students put on plastic gloves and look for trash to put into brown bags. Students then take the trash and glue some of the trash onto paper.
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Inference Makes the Difference

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore how archaeologists make inferences from artifacts to explore what life was like in the past. In this archaeology lesson, students work in groups and make inferences about an imaginary household based on modern day...
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Worms and Spiders: "Critters That Crawl"

For Teachers K
Students complete a unit of lessons on spiders and worms. They discuss worm and spider characteristics, create a garbage garden, observe worms, create gummy worm prints, read the book, 'The Very Busy Spider,' and construct a spider and...
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Our Natural Resources

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars investigate natural resources and man-made items. In this earth science lesson plan, students classify items from trash into man-made items or natural resources. Young scholars construct a flow chart to investigate the...
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Environmental Fair

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students investigate environmental issues. In this environmental lesson, students find an object that is considered trash and make something useful out of it. Students present their creative project.
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Leaching Landfills

For Students 4th - 5th
In this leaching landfills worksheet, students conduct an experiment by following the procedures, observing the results and discussing the conclusion about how garbage leaches into our water.
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Save the Earth: It's Everyone's Home!

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students complete activities to become more aware of environmental issues and the effect on plants and animals. In this environmental issues lesson, students use a globe to discuss issues with the environment. Students then take a trip...
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Recycling

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders gain an awareness of recycling. In this science lesson plan, 4th graders become aware of how much garbage we can produce, identify landfills and their purposes, and explain how recycling saves energy and resources while...
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Everything's Connected

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students explore how trash decomposes. In this ecosystem lesson, students discuss new vocabulary words, such as producers and consumers, and think critically to answer how landfills work.
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Grocery Store Bans Plastic Bags

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students participate in the paper vs. plastic bag debate, then read a news article about one grocery store that is banning plastic bags. In this current events lesson, the teacher introduces the news article with a debate and a...
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Leaky Landfills

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars build a model landfill. For this ground pollution lesson, students use soda bottles to build a model of a landfill. Young scholars observe their model over a period of two weeks and determine safety problems that come from...
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EngageNY

Grade 9 ELA Module 4, Unit 1, Lesson 18

For Teachers 9th Standards
As first-year students continue to investigate how sugar changed the world, the focus shifts to a consideration of why people with limited job options take on dangerous or subjugating work. Class members read an opinion piece by Nicholas...
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Science 4 Inquiry

Fluid Streams Affecting Weather

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
The jet stream can reach speeds of up to 250 miles per hour. Scholars learn about the jet stream and ocean currents as they rotate through stations. They answer questions leading them to understand the impact these fluid streams have on...
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Pace University

Pollution

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Over the course of 10 days, scholars take a pre-assessment to place them in one of three leveled groups. Whole-class and in small groups, pupils take part in read-alouds, field trips, hands-on activities, and complete learning contracts...
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Purdue University

Plastic Water Bottle Design – What’s the Best Shape?

For Teachers 6th Standards
Join the fight to reduce plastic waste. A hands-on STEM activity first teaches scholars about the scourge of plastic waste. They then measure the dimensions of water bottles to calculate surface areas and volumes before using the surface...
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Radford University

Environmental Issues

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Pupils investigate the air pollution situation in China by fitting a curve to historical data. They dig deeper into environmental issues that are of interest and provide a mathematical analysis of the issue. Class members develop a route...
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UMNH: Cultural Clutter - Tales In The Trash

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders list three or more types of evidence of prehistoric cultures that encouraged archaeologists to investigate the marshes around the Great Salt Lake. They also explain why it is important not to disturb archaeological remains.
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Earth Day Trash Survey Unit

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students analyze the data from questionnaires to prepare a report. They distribute the report via e-mail or through a report published on a Web page to those who participated.
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Landfills: Building Them Better

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers investigate the three methods of waste disposal. They listen to a teacher-led lecture, answer discussion questions, and write a letter to the E.P.A. from the viewpoint of an environmental engineer.

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